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A reflection on Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from Sixty Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today, published by The School of Life Introduction Great Thinkers is not easily confined to one academic subject. It brings together philosophy, political theory, sociology, psychology, Eastern thought, art, architecture, and literature. Its purpose is not simply to explain what … Continue reading Learning Journal: Great Thinkers
A reflection on The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Introduction Reading The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained changed the way I understand sociology. Before engaging with the book, I largely viewed sociology as the academic study of society, institutions, social classes, and group behaviour. While this definition was technically correct, it did not … Continue reading Learning Journal: The Sociology Book
Émile Durkheim’s Suicide through organizational behaviour, conflict management, and the Standing on the Ledge framework Introduction Émile Durkheim’s Suicide: A Study in Sociology, first published in 1897, was a major attempt to demonstrate that even an intensely personal act could be studied partly as a social fact. Durkheim examined differences in suicide rates among groups … Continue reading Integration, Regulation, Communication, and Social Rupture
C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite through an organizational behaviour and Standing on the Ledge perspective Introduction In The Power Elite, published in 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills argues that the most consequential decisions in American society had become concentrated among leaders occupying the upper levels of three major institutional systems: large corporations, the military … Continue reading Power, Communication, and Conflict Behind the Organizational Chart
Erving Goffman’s Asylums through an organizational behaviour and Standing on the Ledge perspective Introduction Erving Goffman’s Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates examines how people experience life inside what he calls total institutions. These are organizations in which a large portion of a person’s daily life occurs under a … Continue reading Communication, Conflict, and the Institutional Control of Identity
Module focus Conflict, conflict sources and management styles, negotiation, BATNA, and third-party dispute resolution LensConflict is information. The task is to keep disagreement attached to the issue before it becomes damage between people. Topic Focus This learning journal examines conflict as a normal feature of organizational life rather than an automatic sign of failure. It … Continue reading Module 9 Learning Journal Conflict, Negotiation, and the Work of Resolution
Decision-Making and Creativity Student: Kevin McLaughlin Course: MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Date: July 10, 2026 Central reflection: A decision process can be rational without pretending that the people making the decision are perfectly rational. Introduction Module 7 changed the way I think about decision-making because it does not present decisions as a simple contest between logic … Continue reading Learning Journal – Module 7
Date: Calendar week: June 30-July 6, 2026 Category: Field Lab Learning Journals > MGT2382 Learning Journal Course link: MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour - Week 8: Power and influencing; McShane Chapter 10. Lens: Critical lens: power is not automatically abusive, but hidden or unaccountable power becomes dangerous quickly. Opening reflection This week’s material on power and influence … Continue reading MGT2382 Week 8 Learning Journal: Power, Influence, and the Ethics of How Work Really Gets Moved
This learning journal examines the full scope of Chapter 7 by treating decision-making as both a logical process and a human process. It begins with rational choice, then questions the assumptions underneath that model: whether the problem has been defined honestly, whether information is accurate and supplied above board, whether goals conflict, whether important alternatives … Continue reading Week 6 Learning Journal
Reader's Moment Collapse often looks sudden from the outside. The contract ended. The relationship broke. The body quit cooperating. The job became impossible. The money ran out. The message arrived. The door closed. But many collapses have a Phase 0. The warning-light zone. Nothing has fully collapsed yet, but the dashboard is already flashing. What … Continue reading The Warning Lights Before Collapse
Standing on the Ledge 